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  "thread": {
    "id": 1881,
    "subject": "PKD a hack?",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1999-10-28T09:10:14+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-28T09:10:14+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0303@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "straight at email.unc.edu"
      },
      "date": "1999-10-28T09:10:14+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) PKD a hack?",
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          "kind": "quote",
          "depth": 1,
          "text": "On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 Patri10629 at aol.com wrote:\nAnd let me be frank. No, really frank. Read TIMEQUAKE. Read THE THREE \nSTIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH and  Look me in the eye and tell me that's \nhackwork and I'll buy you a beer."
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          "text": "Or read the MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE.  There is some really beautiful prose\nin that novel.  I read it right after _Little, Big_, so I'm not just\ntalking relatively beautiful prose, or \"pretty good for a hack\" prose.\n\nIt was my first Dick novel and I was astounded.  I said to myself, \"I\nthought Dick was just a mess of wacky drug-induced paranoia...no one ever\ntold me he *wrote* so well!\" \n\n-Rostrum"
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